James sullivan



Patented Aug. 30, I898.

J. SULLlVAN. AWNING FIXTURE.

Application filed Nov. 5, 1897.)

(NO Model.)-

[NlTE STATES 1 Free.

JAMES SULLIVAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

AWNING-FIXTU RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 610,101, dated August30, 1898. Application filed November 5, 1897. Serial No. 657,513; (Nomodel.)

T 60% whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES SULLIVAN, of New York city, in the county andState of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inAwning-Fixtures, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The object of my invention is to provide a fixture through the medium ofwhich when an awning is lowered'or dropped the runners which travel onthe guide-rods for the awning will be automatically fastened to theguiderods or locked in position and whereby, further, when the awning israised the runners will be freed from binding engagement with theguide-rods, enabling the entire awning to be carried upward to itshighest position in the usual manner.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part ofthis specificationy in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved aWning-fixture,illustrating the application thereof, the view representing the lefthandside of a window-casing in part and a left-hand lower portion of anawning and its fixtures. Fig.2 is a horizontal section through one ofthe guide-rods for the awning, illustrating the runner in plan view andthe socket connected with the runner, adapted to receive a side rod ofthe awning-frame, the socket being also shown in plan view and in theposition it occupies when the awning is lowered, effecting under theimproved construction a binding connection between the runner with whichthe socket is connected and the guide-rod on which the socket travels.Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken substantially on the line 3 3 of Fig.2. Fig. at is a section similar to Fig. 3, differing therefrom only inthat the socket for the side rod of the awning-frame is in a verticalposition or the position it occupies when the awning is raised andlowered and also illustrating the runner in this position of the socketbeing freed from binding engagement with the guide-rod on which ittravels; and Fig. 5 is a vertical section taken substantially on theline 5 5 of Fig. 3.

A represents a guide-rod usual to awnings and which is attached to thewindow-frame B in the customary manner.

0 represents a runner adapted to travel on the guide-rod.

D represents the lower side bar of an awning-frame, and E the socket inwhich the lower side bar D is entered and secured.

The runners O are adapted to travel on the guide-rods A for theawning-frame, and each runner is provided with an attached or integralsleeve 10, interiorly threaded, the said sleeves of the runnersreceiving screws 11, which are adapted to secure the runners firmly inposition upon the guiderods A. Each screw is-provided usually at itscenter with a polygonal surface 12,.as is shown in Figs. 3, 4E, and 5.Each of the sockets or fittings E is provided with a shank 13,preferably fiattened, and the shank 13 of each socket or fitting E has apolygonal opening 14 made therein of such dimensions and of such shapeas to fit snugly over the polygonal surfaces 12 on the binding-screws11. A nut 15 is screwed upon the outer end of each binding-screw 11,serving to hold the shanks of I the fittings or sockets E in place onthe polygonal surfaces 12 of the binding-screws.

In operation when the awning is raised and the side bars B are carriedto a vertical position the act of raising the side bars will turn thebinding-screws 11 in a manner to release the said screws from engagementwith the guide-rods A, as shown in Fig. 4, permitting the runners toreadily travel up or down the said rods; but when the awning is droppedand as the side bars of the awning assume a horizontal position thebinding-screws 11 are turned in a manner to bring them in frictionalengagement with the guide-rods A, thereby locking the said runners tothe said rods and preventing the awning from being moved in a verticaldirection when lowered.

The device is exceedingly simple. It is claim as new and desire' tosecure by Letters Patent 1. In the construction of awnings, thecombination, with a guide-rod and a runner held to travel thereon, of abinding-screw entering the runner and arranged for engagement with thesaid guide-rod, and a fitting formed with a socket adapted to receive aportion of the awning-frame, the said fitting being attached to the saidscrew, turning the same when the awning is raised or lowered, asspecified.

2. In the construction of awnings, a runner, a binding-screw enteringthe said runner and provided with a polygonal surface at a point in itslength, and a fitting formed with a socket adapted to receive an end ofthe lower side rod of the awning-frame, and a shank having an openingadapted to closely kept in place on the said polygonal surface, as

and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES SULLIVAN. WVitnesses:

JOHN SULLIVAN, JOSEPH LIAYNIHEN.

